Broth – Cysteine and Glutathione: Pure, Potent Healing Power

Cysteine is an amino acid found in many foods, including poultry, eggs, garlic, onions, oats, cruciferous vegetables, red peppers, wheat germ, milk, and fermented milk products, such as yogurt and kefir. See the Recipes section to learn how to make kefir. Because cysteine is in poultry, chicken and turkey broth have a bit of an edge on beef broth.

Cysteine is a huge detoxifier, and it may aid in the prevention and treatment of many illnesses, including:

• Asthma
• Cancer
• Cataracts
• Hair loss
• Heart disease
• Heavy metal toxicity or exposure
• HIV/AIDS
• Liver disease
• Parkinson's disease
• Psoriasis
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Viral infections

 Now for the fun part – Cysteine’s role in forming Glutathione!

Glutathione is a major contributor to shedding illness and having vibrant health. It is composed of these three amino acids in chicken bone broth: cysteine, glycine and glutamic acid, which I blogged about here: Amino Acids in Bone Broth and How They Help You and Amino Acids in Bone Broth – Glutamic Acid. Glutathione is recycled by the body, but that recycling mechanism breaks down as we age. See the videos on my blog and the Recipes section to learn how to make broth.

As described by my doctor of Oriental medicine, Ken, Glutathione is like a magnet attracting all of the bad stuff and pulling it out of your body. Even heavy metals, such as the mercury that has leached from the fillings in your mouth or that you ingested from the fish you eat or the air you breathe. For those of you who want an MD’s perspective, Dr. Mark Hyman writes in The Ultra Mind Solution (recommended to me by the surgeon who refers his patients to me) that “Glutathione is the center of good health because it is the key to protecting us against oxidation, controlling inflammation, and getting rid of toxins.” It is “…critical in helping your immune system do its job of fighting infections and preventing cancer. Studies show it can eve help in the treatment of AIDS.” If you are an older person who needs some extra encouragement to make and eat broth, know this: the medical journal Lancet found that young people have more glutathione, and old people have less, making them more susceptible to disease (p. 241).

Winter is a great time of the year to make chicken soup, although I am ready for some warmth of Spring! Regardless of season, my family eats bone broth at least three times a week. Hopefully those who have doubted me (ok, I am mainly speaking to some of my family members) will reflect a little on this entry, do some research of their own and then decide it is a good idea to make some broth every week.

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[Melissa Meyer]

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